Chapter 5: Emerald Forest Throwdown
Yang and Blake emerged from the forest to find the ruins that Professor Ozpin spoke of with the relics on pedestals. "Think this is it?" Yang questioned. Blake didn't respond, instead she just went to the ruins silently. The relics that sat on the ruins were simply chess pieces, ones of gold and ones of black. "Chess pieces?" Blake questioned out loud. "Some of them are missing." Yang pointed out. "Looks like we weren't the first ones here."
"Well, I guess we should pick one."
Yang grabbed the golden knight and exclaimed "Well how about a cute little pony?" Blake smiled and replied "Sure." A voice echoed from above them "It's called a knight." The two looked over to the top of the ruins to see a girl with jet black hair and pale skin. Her eyes were half open as she leaned on her elbows, pressing into her dark jeans.
Her black jacket was open to reveal a black shirt with two bandoliers across her chest and two revolvers at her hips. "Hey there Kira." Yang exclaimed as she gave a wave to the girl. Kira waved back and then she jumped to the ground, followed by a girl with black hair, but she mostly wore white. "What up Nabuya?" Yang exclaimed as the two shook hands. Nabuya exclaimed in joy "Hi Yang! How are you? Isn't this place fun? Are these the relics? I love chess!"
"Easy there Hyper One. You and your partner need to pick a relic."
Nabuya turned to Kira, who was holding up a golden bishop. "A bishop, my preferred piece of the game." Kira updated as she put the relic in her pocket. "No way!" Nabuya cheered as she ran over to Kira. "That's my favorite piece too! We are sooooo in sync! It's like we we're meant to be partners!" Kira chuckled and sighed "Nabuya, would you like to introduce yourself to Yang's partner?"
"Right!"
Nabuya went to Blake and introduced "Hi there! My name is Nobunka Shirakami, but you can call me Nabuya. What's your name?" Blake shook Nabuya's hand and replied "Nice to meet you Nabuya, my name is Blake Belladonna." Kira exclaimed "My name is Kira Taseter, if you want to know." Nabuya threw her arm around Kira and cheered "Of course she wants to know! She's your new friend!" Kira grumbled "They only friends I have are you and Victor."
Nabuya continued to sway back and forth in her own little world until a scream filled the forest. "Did you guys hear that!?" Yang exclaimed, looking around. "Some little girl is in trouble!" Nabuya was looking around too for the little girl in trouble while Blake and Kira were staring up in the sky. The two saw Ruby… and she was falling from the sky. Blake and Kira pointed up, prompting Yang and Nabuya to look up and see what they were seeing.
Ruby was still falling when Jaune came flying from out of nowhere and slammed into her from the side, slamming them into a tree. "Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake questioned, still looking up into the air. "There's something coming." Kira pointed out, finger extended to the tree line. Trees shook back and forth until an Ursa emerged, bellowing in rage until something blew up on its back. The beast fell forward and a red haired girl rolled off its back.
"Awww," she whined. "It's broken." A guy in a green shirt and black hair with a strand of pink panted "Nora, please don't ever do that again." He looked up and Nora was gone, apparently she made her way to the ruins without anyone noticing. She was ogling the golden rook and grabbed it with extreme enthusiasm, chanting "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" The guy she was with bellowed "NORA!"
"Coming Ren!"
She skipped away as Blake questioned "Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Nabuya proclaimed very cheerfully "She did! I just found another friend!" She grabbed Kira's hand and nearly shouted "Let's go meet our new friend Kira!" Nabuya shot off after Nora while dragging Kira by her hand. The next strange thing that happened was a screech and Pyrrha came running out of the forest with a Deathstalker right on her tail. The Deathstalker tried to crush Pyrrha, but the Crimson Spartan was just too fast for the beast.
Ruby jumped out of the tree she was in and Yang exclaimed "Ruby?" Ruby responded by cheering "Yang!" Just as they were about to hug, Nora jumped in between them and declared "Nora!" Blake questioned "Did she run all the way here with a Deathstalker on her tail?" At that moment Yang snapped and bellowed "I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out before something crazy happens again!?" Ren moved over to the small group as Yang panted in rage, Ruby tapping on her shoulder. "Um… Yang." Ruby called, causing her to drop her head.
Everyone looked up to see Weiss hanging from the talon of a massive Nevermore, which was flying right above them. "How could you leave me!?" Weiss shouted as the Nevermore flew. "Why doesn't she just jump?" Kira questioned. "I told her to jump." Ruby grumbled. Nora and Nabuya stared up at the girl in white through their fingers circled around their eyes. "She's going to fall." Blake pointed out.
"She'll be fine."
Ren added "She's falling." Jaune then attempted to be a hero and catch Weiss in the air, but ended up falling himself. "Kira!" Nabuya shouted. "Do something!" Kira looked at her with a raised eyebrow and questioned "Like what?"
"Use your Angel wings and catch them!"
Everyone looked at Kira and Nabuya as she threw her hands over her mouth. "God dammit Nabuya." Kira cursed as she face palmed. "That was supposed to be our little secret, wasn't it?" Nabuya muttered.
"Yes, yes it was."
"Sooooooorry."
Kira sighed and focused her energy into unveiling her wings again, shooting into the air as soon as they were ready. Kira flew up and caught the two, gently bringing them to the ground. "Well would you look at that!" A voice echoed from the forest. Everyone turned to see Kris and Grey emerging from the trees. Grey bumped Kira with her shoulder and proclaimed "Looks like we've got an Angel on our side."
Kris laughed "Indeed we do. Didn't really feel like sharing that with the group?" Kira looked horribly embarrassed since everyone was staring at her, causing her to flip up the hood on her jacket and pull it shut over her head. Grey and Kris laughed as the two put their arms around the girl and pulled her back into the group. The Deathstalker was finally able to get a hit in on Pyrrha, sending her flying to the rest of the group. "Great, the gang's here! Now we can die together!" Yang exclaimed as Pyrrha got up.
"Aren't we missing a few people?" Grey questioned as she looked around. What happened next threw everyone off, Alexi came flying out of the tree line and slammed into a column of the ruins. Alexi dropped down and immediately opened up his grenade launcher, loading the weapon as Kira questioned "What happened to you Alexi?" Alexi moved forward with his weapon pointed at the trees and snarled "Holland." Nigel then stepped out of the trees with his mini gun turned into its cricket bat form, the barrels side by side creating a large plank.
"Wait, have you two been trying to kill each other the entire time?" Ren questioned. "Just about." Alexi proclaimed as he set his sights on Nigel and proceeded to fire the grenade. Nigel smirked as he raised his bat and sent the grenade flying in a different direction. Nigel charged forward with his bat ready while Alexi charged to meet him with his AK split into its dual sickles. The two were about to meet when a tree suddenly slammed in between them.
"What the fuck?" Alexi exclaimed as he looked at the tree, which appeared to have been ripped from the ground. Everyone looked in the direction of where the tree came flying from to see another flying out of the forest. This one landed on the Deathstalker and enraged it, making it turn in the direction of more flying trees. Deveraux flew out of the forest riding a tree as it sailed out, his revolvers firing like crazy. The tree crashed onto the Deathstalker as Dev barked "Enough with the goddamn trees already!"
Another tree flew out of the forest, this one was speared towards Dev, who used his burned arm to punch the tree into splinters. Victor walked out of the forest, axe on his back and questioned "How do you keep punching the trees I throw at you into splinters?" Dev showed off his arm and exclaimed "It's called the Devilbringer's Arm. Make me a lot stronger than I should be, among other things."
"Huh, looks like I'm going to have to cut that off."
"I'd like to see you try."
Victor grabbed another tree and proceeded to pull it from the ground, then threw it at Dev. Dev smirked as he pulled back his Devilbringer and punched the tree into lumber. Dev was taken by surprise as Victor flew through the pieces of wood and struck him with his axe, sending him towards the ruins. Dev landed and drew his blade ready for Victor's charge until the Deathstalker got in between them. "Get out of my WAY!" Victor bellowed as he grabbed the Deathstalker's tail. Victor then turned and threw the Deathstalker into the forest and bellowed "MERCER'S MINE!"
"Did that guy just throw the Deathstalker?" Blake questioned as the fight continued. Victor quickly switched his axe into its assault rifle form and began unloading on Dev, who was moving too quick for Victor to get an accurate shot on. Dev slid to a stop and began to fire rounds at Victor, but the big guy was faster than expected and dodged the rounds. Victor switched his weapon to its axe form as Dev holstered his revolvers and drew his blade. The two clashed blades with fury and speed, causing sparks to fly with each contact.
"Wow, those two are really trying to kill each other." Yang pointed out as everyone watched Victor and Dev fight. "Shouldn't we do something?" Ruby questioned. At that moment, Victor switched his axe back to its rifle form as Dev sheathed his blade and pointed a revolver at Victor. Everyone panicked at that point and ran over to the dueling pair. Victor was staring down the barrel of the .44 while Dev could count the rifling of Victor's 249. "Come on! Do It! Shoot me!" Victor barked. Dev instigated "Pull the trigger! I dare you! I double dare you mother fucker!" Both of them then pulled the trigger on their respective weapons, both resulting in a click.
Victor tilted his weapon to the side to see his assault pack was empty while Dev flicked open his chamber to see he was empty too. "Shit." Both cursed at the same time as they started to reload. There was a familiar screech and everyone looked up to see the Nevermore had returned, and it had brought a friend. "Double shit." Vic and Dev cursed just as there were more screeches. The two looked to the forest to see two Deathstalkers emerge, prompting them to both curse "Triple shit."
Victor and Dev glared at each other, Dev questioning "Truce?" Victor looked to the enemies before him and grumbled "Truce. Move!" Everyone turned and started moving towards the ruins with the large Grimm on their tails. Victor stopped by the ruins and grabbed the black queen, and so did Alexi. Grey grabbed the golden bishop and all of them started to move towards the ruins by the chasm. Victor stopped and turned, then began to fire at one of the Nevermores that was attacking them.
Nigel joined in with his minigun and forced the Nevermore to deviate away from its ally. "We've got this Nevermore!" Victor shouted as he started moving more towards the forest. The Grimm screeched in frustration and threw its wings forward, sending a storm of razor feathers straight for Victor, Dev, Alexi and Nigel. "Fear not!" Nigel exclaimed. "I've got this one!" Nigel focused his energy and time seemed to slow down as the feathers headed straight for them.
Nigel aimed his weapons and was able to figure out which feathers provided the biggest threat and how to remove them accordingly. Once time caught up with him, he fired his minigun and shattered the feathers that would have impaled them while the others harmlessly hit the ground around them. Victor turned to Dev and questioned "How much do you weigh?" Dev looked at him with a questioning look and responded "Excuse me?"
"How much do you weigh?"
"I don't know… about 150?"
"Perfect."
Victor grabbed Dev and then threw him as hard as he could at the Nevermore, which was starting to dive at them. Dev flew through the air and thought "Did that son of a bitch seriously just throw me? Welp, time to make the best out of a shitty situation." Dev timed his Flash ability just right and warped onto the back of the Nevermore, clinging to its feathers. He pulled out his sword and drove it into the Nevermore's back to give him a better hold on the beast. Deveraux then pulled out one of his revolvers and began to fire rounds into the back of the Grimm's head, pissing it off immensely.
"Alexi, bring the bird to the ground." Victor exclaimed. "Nigel! Bring it lower!" Alexi put his AK on his back and began focusing on the Nevermore, draining it of its energy. Nigel began firing his minigun at the Nevermore, forcing the Grimm to fly lower to the ground. Victor put his weapon on his back and began to charge the beast. "Gotta get angry. Gotta get angry. Gotta get angry." Victor repeated in his head until he bellowed "GOTTA GET ANGRY!"
Victor slid to a stop and threw his fist into the face of the Nevermore, breaking the Grimm's head. The beast lifted up and then slammed down to the ground with a loud slam. Victor started to shake his hand out as Dev jumped off the Nevermore's body barking "Why the hell did you throw me?" Victor then delivered a sucker punch to the side of Dev's head, sending him flying.
Grey, Kris, Kira and Nabuya ran towards the chasm, but were cut off as one of the Deathstalkers cut them off from the others. Grey jumped back as the Deathstalker drove its stinger into the ground in front of her. Nabuya did her usual thing and started swinging her bat at the Deathstalker, driving its pincers away from anyone it tried to grab. Kira ducked under one of the pincers and started hacking at the Deathstalker's back, but she wasn't doing much since the Grimm's armor was too thick. Kris slashed at the other pincer that attempted to grab at them, but she was keeping it away.
Grey switched her broadsword into its railgun form and started to fire rail blasts into the Deathstalker's face. The beast screeched in anger and swung its pincers out and sent Nabuya and Kristine flying to the side. Kira started shooting at the Deathstalker's tail, but the Grimm hit her and threw her off of its back. Grey swapped to her broadsword as the Deathstalker's tail shot towards her, deflecting the strikes with the flat of her blade. Grey wasn't sure how many more attacks she could deflect until Nabuya ran to the side of the Deathstalker, a small explosion occurring that sent the Grimm sliding.
Kristine charged the Deathstalker and jumped over a pincer, driving her blades into the Deathstalker's eyes. Kira didn't hesitate to charge the Deathstalker and started chopping at its tail. Nabuya continued to swing her spiked bat, continuously creating explosions with each swing. The Deathstalker was enraged at the group that was tearing into it. It gripped Kris and pulled her off of its face, pulling the swords out of its eyes and threw her into the trees.
The Deathstalker then swung one of its pincers and threw her away. Kira held onto the Deathstalker, one of her axes lodged into its tail while the other continued to chop. "Kris! Nabuya! On me!" Grey barked as she readied her blade. Kris and Nabuya ran to her and Grey exclaimed "Kris! Give me and Nabuya a way to the Deathstalker." Kris nodded and charged the Deathstalker, firing a bolt of lightning at the beast and giving Nabuya and Grey an opening.
Grey jumped and drove her broadsword into the top of the Deathstalker's head, but it didn't kill it. "Nabuya! Drive it home!" Grey shouted, causing Nabuya's smile to increase. "It's the bottom of the ninth! And I'm swinging for the fences!" Nabuya declared as she lifted her bat and brought it down. Nabuya's bat hit the top of the blade and drove it straight through the Grimm, plunging the blade into the ground. The beast fell to the ground and Grey pulled out the blade, declaring "I am the once and future king!"
"Aren't you a girl, so wouldn't you be the once and future queen?" Nabuya questioned as she collapsed her weapon.
"It's from a book."
Kris sheathed her blades and exclaimed "Nice work everyone! We totally kicked that Deathstalker's ass!" Kira went over to the group and holstered her revolvers without saying a word. All of the groups met up and they headed back to the cliff face to return their relics and finish their initiation… as students of Beacon Academy.
As'/N: Welp, some action, always good! See you guys next chapter! :D